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Tales of the Unexpected

Does anyone like this show?

It's all on YouTube and all episodes are under 30 minutes. Lots of well known actors too.

Any favourite episodes?

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by Anonymousreply 54December 14, 2020 7:48 PM

I generally find them disappointing.

I remember them from the time. They were very popular at my boarding school.

I prefer the British ones, in general.

by Anonymousreply 1January 25, 2019 6:55 PM

Me too, especially the older British ones with a Murder.

by Anonymousreply 2January 25, 2019 7:01 PM

They are or were on Amazon and I watched several early ones before losing interest. Lots of old stars turn up in them. Favorites were one where Elaine Stritch's husband dies and his brain is kept alive in a jar (the brain can see her). While alive he kept Elaine on a tight leash - not allowing her to drink, smoke or watch TV or have any fun in general. So Elaine proceeds to do all those things and party it up in full view of the brain. Another memorable one was Joan Collins as a rich horny cheating wife who gets herself stuck in an abstract sculpture while attempting to perform a sex act.

by Anonymousreply 3January 25, 2019 7:32 PM

Lamb to the Slaughter was good. A woman batters her cheating husband with a leg of lamb then cooks it and serves it to the police!

by Anonymousreply 4January 28, 2019 5:44 PM

I like this one with Julie Harris

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by Anonymousreply 5January 28, 2019 5:57 PM

Funny, I was just talking to my partner about this show last night. We were watching Joan Collins in “Tales from the Crypt.”

by Anonymousreply 6January 28, 2019 5:57 PM

This is the scariest episode

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by Anonymousreply 7January 28, 2019 6:09 PM

I also liked this episode

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by Anonymousreply 8January 28, 2019 6:11 PM

Great choices!

by Anonymousreply 9January 29, 2019 5:54 AM

Hammer House of horrors had some good episodes. S1, Ep 7 “Silent Scream” with Peter Cushing and Brian Cox is excellent.

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by Anonymousreply 10January 29, 2019 9:58 AM

Thank you R10 I'll watch this!

by Anonymousreply 11January 29, 2019 3:19 PM

If you like Roald Dahl, episodes of his old show Way Out are up on youtube:

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by Anonymousreply 12January 29, 2019 3:35 PM

Any other great episodes of TOTU?

by Anonymousreply 13January 31, 2019 3:44 PM

The Joan Collins horror movies of the early 70s are pretty good if you like this sort of thing.

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by Anonymousreply 14January 31, 2019 4:18 PM

That's the series with the sexy lady dancing under the credits.

by Anonymousreply 15January 31, 2019 4:18 PM

The Man from the South about a bizarre bet over a cigarette lighter was a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock Presents and then remade again as the new Alfred Hitchcock Presents series.

by Anonymousreply 16January 31, 2019 4:23 PM

I watched a good one last night "Back for Christmas" about a man's clever plan to kill his wife.

by Anonymousreply 17January 31, 2019 4:32 PM

[quote] about a man's clever plan to kill his wife.

about half of them seem to be about this.

tells you a lot about Roald.

by Anonymousreply 18January 31, 2019 4:34 PM

Poor Patricia Neal!

Although I do love the one with Julie Christie where she plays a lady terrified of being late. Her wicked husband terrorised her by holding them up for a flight. She gets her revenge when he gets trapped in their private lift...

"Stairway To Heaven"

by Anonymousreply 19January 31, 2019 4:53 PM

This show is very much the poor man's Twilight Zone. Most of the episodes are boring or just badly written with no twists. However "flypaper" is the best and creepiest.

by Anonymousreply 20January 31, 2019 5:04 PM

^ It was Julie Harris, not Julie Christie. I linked to it above.

by Anonymousreply 21January 31, 2019 6:08 PM

Sorry, I meant Julie Harris! She was also in the second episode about a fur coat!

by Anonymousreply 22January 31, 2019 6:24 PM

Was there one with a guy who starts to turn into a bee?

by Anonymousreply 23January 31, 2019 6:52 PM

Here's one with John Gielgud

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by Anonymousreply 24January 31, 2019 6:56 PM

R23 Royal Jelly!

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by Anonymousreply 25January 31, 2019 7:37 PM

Here's one with a young Julian Fellowes

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by Anonymousreply 26February 1, 2019 1:52 AM

Jose Ferrer was the TOTU Man from the South.

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by Anonymousreply 27February 1, 2019 6:24 AM

And Michael Ontkean his victim.

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by Anonymousreply 28February 1, 2019 6:26 AM

R19 - The Way Up to Heaven was first made as an episode of Suspicion with Marion Lorne as the wife and Sebastian Cabot as the husband.

by Anonymousreply 29February 1, 2019 6:30 AM

Thanks R29!

I watched a good one called Pattern of Guilt last night. A police Doctor uses a serial killer's M. O.

by Anonymousreply 30February 1, 2019 6:46 AM

Here's the Suspicion version of The Way Up To Heaven

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by Anonymousreply 31February 2, 2019 1:28 AM

I just watched Mrs. Bixby an the Colonel's Coat which was done earlier as an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode.

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by Anonymousreply 32February 2, 2019 10:37 AM

Great ideas guys.

by Anonymousreply 33February 2, 2019 6:55 PM

Here's Audrey Meadows in the AHP episode.

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by Anonymousreply 34February 3, 2019 6:07 AM

From the revamped "Twilight Zone" in 1985. "Time and Tersesa Galowitz" involves a famous Broadway composer who's just had a fatal heart attack, Gene Barry as an urbane Prince of Darkness who loves musicals, and time travel to 1948 in an effort to save a sad could be superstar. Charming episode.

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by Anonymousreply 35February 3, 2019 6:49 AM

Rachel Kempson in Bosom Friends

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by Anonymousreply 36February 4, 2019 7:23 AM

Just discovered “Thriller”, a mid 70s British program on Amazon Prime. Created by Brian Clemens (The Avengers).

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by Anonymousreply 37February 4, 2019 9:55 AM

Crown Court was a good one back in the 70s and still makes for good viewing. Lots of it is on YouTube.

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by Anonymousreply 38February 4, 2019 10:13 AM

Anouska Hempel - Zodiac.

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by Anonymousreply 39February 4, 2019 10:20 AM

As you can see - Zodiac is not one to be missed.

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by Anonymousreply 40February 4, 2019 10:26 AM

r37, I love Thriller! I have a DVD set and have seen every episode. This episode is one of my favorites:

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by Anonymousreply 41February 4, 2019 4:09 PM

More Thriller, this is a great episode:

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by Anonymousreply 42February 5, 2019 2:54 AM

I have been watching my collection of Tales of the Unexpected. There is an off-putting grubbiness to the series, maybe because of the English and their bad teeth. And a lot of close-ups with no protection for the ladies. I think I prefer my anthologies in black and white.

by Anonymousreply 43February 5, 2019 7:42 AM

Just watched a great one with Joan Collins called "Neck". She plays a society floozy who rubs her numerous affairs in her kindly husband's face. Then she goes and gets her pretty head stuck in one of his outdoor art installations....

Also, the young houseguest she attempts to seduce is a real English hottie!

by Anonymousreply 44February 10, 2019 8:10 PM

Any others?

by Anonymousreply 45February 11, 2019 4:49 PM

I just watched "The Absence of Emily". The leading female British aristocrat speaks so plummy that its farcical.

by Anonymousreply 46February 11, 2019 4:58 PM

Here's another one:

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by Anonymousreply 47February 11, 2019 5:17 PM

R46 I saw that the other night and I thought exactly the same thing! By that point in the series they were recycling old plot twists and it didn't have the same charm.

by Anonymousreply 48February 11, 2019 8:18 PM

Remember when the woman says the police poo-poo'd her?

by Anonymousreply 49February 12, 2019 9:12 AM

Sheila Gish appears in "A Harmless Vanity" and "Fat Chance".

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by Anonymousreply 50February 14, 2019 6:09 AM

Here's another episode:

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by Anonymousreply 51February 14, 2019 4:38 PM

I saw a few more this morning. Very good. Any you like?

by Anonymousreply 52October 17, 2020 4:13 PM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 53October 17, 2020 5:54 PM

More tales?

by Anonymousreply 54December 14, 2020 7:48 PM
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